Key Terms
The movement of people/animals from one place to another.
What is migration?
Describing the increase or decrease in a population over a unit of time, usually a year.
What is growth rate?
Currently changing due to long-term shifts in weather patterns; The average weather of an area over time.
What is climate?
Reuniting with family and better education are examples of this reason for migration.
What are pull factors?
Clean water, food, and shelter are examples of this?
What are basic needs?
A city with a population of more than 10 million people.
What is a megacity?
New inventions like the seed drill and horse-drawn hoe helped spark this revolution, allowing more food to be produced and supporting larger populations.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Rainfall in the major South American river basin has decreased since the mid-1980s, leading to droughts, fewer trees, and lower river levels.
What is the Amazon River Basin?
Another term for low-density settlements of one-family houses on the outskirts of urban areas.
What are suburbs?
Living sustainably; Making choices that do not damage or use up resources for the future increase the this key word of our communities.
What is carrying capacity?
Factors that force people to leave their homes.
What are push factors?
Settlements that form along features such as rivers, roads, or railways - like those along the Nile - are examples of this population pattern.
What is a linear population pattern?
These destructive events can occur when too much water builds up on a slope, causing earth or mud to flow downward.
What are landslides?
Causing disorientation; Cities now produce so much of this which can change behaviour of insects, birds, sea turtles, fish, and mammals
What is light pollution?
The three main principles of sustainability
What are environmental, social, and economic?
A map that uses shades of colour to show data such as population density.
What is a choropleth map?
Especially true for women, as this factor increases the average marriage age rises and birth rates tend to fall.
What is education?
Rising global temperatures and melting ice caps have cause this phenomenon to increase by about 3.2 mm per year since 1994, putting hundreds of millions of people in low-lying coastal settlements at risk.
What is rising sea level?
True or False: High-density cities sometimes produce less pollution per person than rural areas
True
This is where over 90 percent of slums are located.
What are developing countries?
Land that is suitable for farming.
What is arable land?
The maximum population an area can support without exhausting essential resources such as food, water, and land.
What is carrying capacity?
Long-term drought has caused the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts to expand, leading China to plant shrubs, grasses, and trees in large shelterbelts to slow desertification by 40 percent.
What is the Great Green Wall project?
Most of the people who leave rural areas are part of this group.
What are young males?
Enough to fill every bathtub in North America, every day the world consumes 122 million bathtubs of this.
What is oil?